'Entourage': 'Motherf**ker' recap

The episode starts with Vince being interviewed by Sophia, a Vanity Fair journalist. Throughout, he less than professionally flirts with her while dodging questions about addictions and his father, who abandoned him when he was 8.

Melinda Clarke - Sloan's stepmother in the Entourage world, now divorced from Terence - approaches Eric and asks if he'd be willing to manage her. Eric is unsure and doesn't want to annoy Sloan, but Scott convinces him that if Eric doesn't care about Sloan anymore, he shouldn't worry about what she would think. Eric agrees and says he'll sign her up.

Mrs Ari enters Ari's workplace to drop her two children, Sarah and Jonah. It's revealed that it's Ari's turn to see the kids, and he has plans to take them to Disneyland. The 18-year-old Sarah is less than enthusiastic about this. Even Jonah appears to have grown out of Mickey Mouse now.

Barbara interrupts Ari and his wife to tell Ari that Taylor Lautner's buddy has finished a script, and that the Twilight actor loves and wants to star in it. The buddy wants to give Dana Gordon a first look at it, so Dana will be coming over to watch Lautner read the script. Ari rings Dana saying that he doesn't want the meeting to be awkward.

Dana responds by telling him not to worry, as long as he doesn't act weird. Ari then tells his children that they're not going to Disneyland and that Taylor is coming to the office (Jonah: "Ew"; Sarah, giving her father a rare hug: "I love you, Daddy!")

Drama, still fretting about Johnny's Bananas, gets the idea to give Dice part of his salary so that their pay will be equal. Dice is impressed by his selflessness - and indeed, it is nice to see Drama having a project he truly cares about - but Dice refuses to return to the show, adamant that the network must pay him and not Drama.

Though Phil tells Drama that the network envisions him carrying the show, Drama is convinced that it will flop without Dice and announces that he's following suit and walking from Johnny's Bananas too.

Inside the conference room, Taylor is a no-show but Dana is with Ari and Barbara reading the script. Ari's children, impatient at being stuck in the office, enter to speak with their father. Dana introduces herself, but Jonah responds: "Are you the Dana that our mom hates?" Ouch.

Dana takes this as her cue to leave. She tells Ari that she feels humiliated - his wife hates her, the kids know, and all the while she has done nothing wrong. She says she'll buy the script despite not reading the entire thing.

Vince gets a second shot at being interviewed by Sophia - this time at his hotel - after convincing her that his confidence was just a cover for his nervousness. She asks Vince some tough questions about his father and the fact that he was romantically involved with a porn star (Sasha Grey), but Vince gets through the interview.

As Sophia leaves, Vince once again tries his luck, asking if she'd like to go for a drink. Despite Vince's pushiness, Sophia remains insistent that it's unprofessional and she's not interested. Vince seems to be quite infatuated with her. Who bets that he'll eventually win her over?

Ari drives his children back home, admitting to his wife that he couldn't get out of the office. He apologizes for bringing Dana to Bobby Flay's restaurant and for his general dumb behavior, but Mrs Ari counters that he always puts work ahead of family (we're retreading old ground, here) and that she's filing for divorce.

Later that night, a drunk Ari rings Dana. Dana confesses that she's lonely and knows that the whole situation is complicated, but she's still willing to take a chance on him if he's interested.

Finally, Eric meets with Melinda over drinks. After bonding over slagging off their exes, the pair end up in bed. Just then, an angry Sloan calls Eric demanding to know if he spoke with Melinda. She explains Melinda emailed her father taunting that she was going to bed Eric. Eric denies that they had sex but says that they did meet and it's not Sloan's business as they're not an item anymore. Sloan hangs up.

Eric turns to Melinda and asks whether she was using him to get back at her ex-husband Terence. "Maybe at first... but then I had a really great time. You're still going to be my manager, though, right?"

LLOOOOOOOOYD!

It was excellent to see the conniving Melinda Clarke again. One of the highlights of the episode, for sure.

Ari, telling his children about Taylor Lautner's planned visit: "She gets to hang with the Wolfman, provided he keeps his shirt on. He has 4% body fat - Daddy has 5. Tell Mommy. Daddy's been working out."